Monthly Archives: October 2016

SOOO Many little topics to cover today!

I went and saw my Doctor that manages my BHRT (Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy). We are holding the testosterone and progesterone where they we set last time. They seem to be really good here 🙂 The best part of today’s visit was I got my prescription for my Natur-Throid! It is a NATURAL form of thyroid hormones from Pigs. So while the synthetic stuff supplements the T4 and T3 the Natural stuff also contains trace amounts of the other T’s (1 & 2) – I mentioned this before – it could be dicey as we make this transition – But I’m excited. Continue reading →

I get one rest day a week – I happen to take it yesterday because my sister and I went driving all over to an estate sale and a quilt shop where the material was being sold for $1.00 a yard.

When I got home I had to do some cleaning due to the dogs having giardia. I wanted to get all the poop cleaned up and their beds washed, they were at the vet getting bathed and in day care while I was gone all day.

I get that all done, get them home, change into my workout clothes and sit. I could not make myself go do an hour workout. I was tired and unmotivated so I said today is my rest day and moved on.

This morning I got up with a rotten headache but I put on my workout clothes, came down took some headache meds and made a cup of coffee.

I did not want to workout at all!

While I was sitting and waiting for the headache to go away and watching the political shit show I got a notification from Timehop that my days was ready to be viewed.

3 years ago on October 30th I completed P90X. When I saw these pictures it helped my find my motivation to get my workout done.

1 week – all workouts done.

1 week – nutrition 100%

Happy Camper here today.

🙂

I know it’s only been three workouts and 2.5 days of watching my food but I feel like progress is being made.

I’m less bloated and I feel positive that I will get to where I am going.

My workout room has good shadows 🙂 Only thing was I could not capture them in the pictures as well as I see them IRL. AND the battery died on my phone while I was down there so the second pic is not as great as I would like – but – it still shows my less bloated belly 🙂

I have this “thing” where I like to plan things.

I was just talking to my co-workers last week about this “thing” and how it can really bog down your thinking. I have a budget plan that goes out to December 2018. It shows me my billing of all the bills we have and when the rotating credit lines will be paid off and when we can go on vacation and long-term goals like selling the house.

Recently I paid off a large loan and I was stoked! I started looking for ways to pay off some others. When I realized it was not going to happen before the March 2017 date I already have planned I got a bit bummed. I started thinking about When this happens or when that happens how much better life will be. I need to stop that and realize life is amazing right now. We all have bills and we will always have bills its just a matter of knowing what ones are smart and what ones to eliminate…and work toward that but it does not mean that today is not great.

SO today I found myself looking back at all my pictures I have from the end of P90X in 2013. And I was king of kicking myself for the back slide. Which led me to start thinking about is looking back good or bad? Is looking ahead good or bad?

I came to the conclusion that looking forward or backward are neither good or bad – AS LONG AS YOU DON’T LOSE SIGHT ON NOW. 🙂

Right now life is great – financially, and it will improve. If I don’t learn right now from the financial mistakes I have made, the future will not look any different from the past.

Right now I wake up alive and with the ability to change my physical attributes. However, like the financial aspect of my life, if I don’t learn why I keep ending up here; needing to lose weight, I will only keep going back and forth to a place between where I am proud, to a place I want to kick myself.

So today I am choosing to use my looking back as a motivator for where I know I can go, because I have been there before.

Pictures to mark the first day of something 🙂

EDIT: The title is not quite in line with the thoughts so let me expand. I was doing really good last week until I had a few drinks Wednesday night. Then when you combine a few drinks with the desire to change – you don’t have the same desire. So if you really want to make changes, make sure your alcohol is PLANNED and you know that you can get back on track the next day and not let it keep pulling you back. It’s super easy to beat yourself up. I’m leaning /EDIT

This was me 3 years ago after I finished a round of P90X

So look what I did today at lunch

The eating I followed when I did that program was Carb Night Solution. Low carb (Keto low) all but one night a week from 5:00PM to bed time, I ate whatever. Then back to Keto the next morning That is my plan.

Tonight I will get bikini photos for my starting point – I can do this I’m worth it 🙂

I have a list of topics I want to chat about and as I was starting to think about this one – I realize it started from another one.

Last week Wednesday or Thursday I removed the Facebook app from my phone. I didn’t delete my account as I belong so several groups, have many other sites and apps that use my Facebook profile for access, and it’s kind of key for staying in touch with some family members. So I can get on the computer and log in if I need to get in contact with someone. On my phone I still have an app called Groups and Facebook messenger. But without my news feed in my face ALL DAY LONG I started to feel better about myself.

It’s kind of funny how social medial can make us feel like we are not enough. I talked about this before; we only see what people want us to see.

That my friends is their highlight reel, and while we know to not compare our daily life to other peoples highlight reel, we do it. I think it makes us feel like we are less, if we are so inclined to that kind of pressure. To be honest I think it effects everyone even if they want to say it does not, because we are all human!

That brings me to the other part; I’m/It’s Worth It!

All of the things I know to do or want to do take effort. Without the constant loop of “look what so-n-so is doing” or “look how so-n-so is improving life” in my head, I have started having another conversion in there; It’s worth it.

Example: Thought: “I need to do the dishes. UGH – I hate to do the dishes….But getting them done will make the house look so much better, so it’s worth it.” All of the THINGS that I want (lose weight, get rid of the dimples in my butt, make the house nice) they all take effort. And usually I concede to the “UGH” and plop down on the sofa and stare at the TV and scroll through Facebook.

Now, I don’t.

• Counting calories, drinking water, exercising daily will get me to my weight loss goal = I’m Worth it!
• Making time to warm up and use my Fasciablaster will help with the butt dimples and shape = I’m Worth it!
• Dishes after dinner will give me a nice kitchen to walk into in the morning = It’s Worth it!

You see my point. Each time I see something or think of something that needs to be done – rather than stopping at UGH and plopping down and avoiding it – I think about the task and what it is going to help me attain and I decide if it’s worth it.

Most of the time it is 🙂

Today I am apparently 26.9 pounds away from my goal of 110.

I get an email once a week from my scale. LOL Yes – I said my scale. There is in app that is wirelessly connected to my scale that keeps track of those things. I probably talked about it around the first of the year when I bought it. I like it but then again I hate it. I have stayed off of it lately, cuz I didn’t want to know. I stepped on it this weekend so I have a starting point and know how far I have to go in the next 6 months 🙂

So – In case you didn’t see my update – I was wrong in my measurements last week. I have lost 1 inch from my navel – not 5 🙂 it was an error in reading the tape measure…it has a 4 inch lead in before 0 🙁

I thought I would share some of the other supplements I take and why – I will also share a link to where you can buy them, if you’re so inclined

Today we are looking at Collagen. Life savor! I added collagen earlier this year when I started using the fasciablaster (this will be another topic and post all together). I am in a Facebook group that is all women for this tool and the discussion came up one time and I decided to add it into my routine and see if it helped my fascia.

I did my standard research and purchase. When I ran out, I really had not noticed anything major so I didn’t reorder. Then after about a week of NOT taking it daily I noticed my fingers were hurting. To be honest I had not noticed that they had stopped hurting, until they started hurting again. I have a history of hand arthritis in my family. Is this what is causing my pain? IDK – but I know the collagen keeps it away. SO I reordered it and after a week of adding it back to my Shakeology shake, my fingers quit hurting again. I can tell when I get lazy with my diet and don’t have my shake for more than just the reasons I drink that in the first place.

Also I noticed that my hair is growing back. I have lost a lot lately. Not sure if it is age or the testosterone I’m on or my Graves Disease LOL any of the above can cause hair loss…regardless I have about 1.5 inches or regrowth and I am happy.

On the topic of Graves Disease. My endocrinologist is retiring so my Doctor that handles my Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement is going to start taking care of that for me as well. AND I am beyond happy to say that he has agreed to help me get switched to a natural thyroid replacement treatment from synthetic!!! I go this week Wednesday for my blood work and then on Halloween for my appointment to talk to him. It could mean a few rough months to get it figured out, but I’m ready.

Just off this one post I can see at least 3-4 other post topics: Shakeology, Fasciablaster, BHRT, Natur-Thyroid – let me know if there is anything else you want to hear about 🙂

Anyone that has been following me for a while knows that I will try natural supplements over prescription drugs. I only take 4 actual prescriptions (2 for thyroid, 2 for hormone replacement therapy). The rest of the supplements I take are natural, over the counter (order from Amazon) products.

The one I am going to talk about today is Black Seed Oil. I have been taking this for a month now. The first day I started taking it I felt….brighter, mentally. I had found myself in a pretty dark mind-set and had read good things about this black seed oil. I have to say, I don’t believe everything I read. I do my research and if I can find many supporting articles, and I can also find that making myself the guinea pig will not hurt me, I might give it a shot. In this case – I could find no down side and more articles than I cared to read as to why it was good.

Around September 10th I ordered the bottle pictured below. Like I said before, I already take several supplements and when adding a new one I need to determine how I know it’s working. So many things I had found – without blood work or a horrid disease I was trying to cure, it would be hard to determine if it was a good new addition. Inflammation and fat loss were two items listed that it was good for. Also, I head read it was good for depression. Now, “do i feel less down” is a subjective measure as that can change from day-to-day. I needed something that was a solid marker of change. On September 12th I measured my waist AT my navel. It was 33 1/3 🙁

Life goes on, my product arrived and I started taking 1 teaspoon each morning. It’s kind of nasty tasting. When I first smelled the stuff it reminded me of the dust from a pencil sharpener LOL. Others have compared it to turpentine – I don’t think it smells or tastes THAT bad. Chase it with some water and your fine. DON’T mix it in with your Shakeology shake….it ruins the flavor!

SO the point to this whole story: I was running out. I sat here the other day and was trying to decide to I re-order or do I write that off as an experiment that didn’t show me much. That was when I noticed the calendar and remembered how I had planned to make this decision.

Side note – the older I get – the more actual notes I should leave myself. I can’t remember shit lately.

I measured my waist AT my navel Wednesday, it was 28. I looked up at the calendar and thought No, I must have done this wrong. I grabbed the tape measure again and checked it two more times. That is like 5 1/3 inches smaller. I can tell you my diet and exercise have not been on point in that month LOL. NOTE!!! – I did do it wrong!!! My measuring tape had a 4.5 in leader before the 0 line….I only lost 1 1/3 inches in a month not 5 1/3!

Needless to say, I reordered it. I don’t see a huge impact to the scale. So I am assuming that loss is due to inflammation reduction and bloating? I am still on the antibiotics that hate me so I’m not 100% where the loss came from, I just hope now that I am getting back on track with my nutrition and exercise that I see a better change. Sunday I’ll have my husband or someone help me measure so I have more than one point of reference 🙂

Just so you know! If you click the picture, there is a link to buy that product from Amazon. It is an affiliate link, and if you buy your product from that link, I get paid.